la Tefle environ trois pieds un doigt de tour. That is, 
A very marvelous things to which I could fcarce have gi- 
ven my Credit^ if I had not feen it my felf 3 inafmnch as 
the Bones of the Legs meafured full tjoree foot four inches 
in lengthy and the Skull was three foot one inch about. 
Which circumference I obferve is exaftly proportiona- 
ble to the length of the Legs^ and if we make an al- 
lowance for the. hair and skin that covered the SkulL 
when he was alive, it falls very little fhort of the di- 
menfions we have before fet down, in computing the 
fize of our Giants Head when it was entire^ 
And this brings into my thoughts^ as if it were not 
unhkely, that this large OsFrontk we have defcribed, 
might about feventy or eighty years ago ("for it feems 
frefh, and is ftill folid and ponderous, fo that it cannot 
be very old) 'have been brought into Europe by fome of 
the Trading Hollanders^ as a'ndtural Guriofity, and 
proper Sample (and truly a part of the Skull was the 
fitteft choice could have been made of all the Bones o£ 
the Body for that purpofe ) of fome huge Gigantick 
Man, met with in fome of their Voyages mio America 
for the Dutch about that time held great comnierGe, 
had large Golonies^ and made confiderable Difcoveries 
in BraJUe , and other the more Southern parts of that 
Quarter of the World. 
But this I only conjedture, for by the ftrifteft enquiry 
II could make with my much efteemed friend Dr Charles 
Drelinconrt^ their Profeflbr of Anatomy, at Lejden^ I 
could never learn the leaft account concerning this 
Bone, whence it came, or who it was prefented it to 
the Univerfity : Nor does it indeed import much whe. 
ther we difcover the true Original of it or no 3 'tisfuf- 
ficjent to our prefent purpofe^ that we may from this 
Bone, as a fair Specimen^ together with other warrant- 
able Hiftories, clearly deduce, as T hope I have done. 
That there, have, been in Nature Humaiie Bodies, eleven 
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